From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 15:32:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp6vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033D837B40D for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from static@cybertours.com) Received: from statix (client-64-223-210-160.bellatlantic.net [64.223.210.160]) by smtp6ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA43369648 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:32:35 GMT Message-ID: <000901c113c6$87931420$016fa8c0@statix> From: "A. Smith" To: Subject: IBM Thinkpad P120 Router Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:26:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Everyone I have an IBM Thinkpad, P-120 with 40MB ram working as the gateway for my network. I'm running IPFW, currently using the default rc.firewall -OPEN ruleset. Everything seems to work very well (with the odd exception of my not being able to access random sites, like www.real.com ...but that's another issue) _functionally_ but the performance of the machine is in question right now. I would say 90 percent of the online applications I use work perfectly well. The exception is gaming. I'm an avid Counter-Strike player, and whenever I'm logged into a server I get some really bad lag spikes. I've got a 640d/90u DSL connection through Verizon, and this only happens when I'm using the BSD box as the gateway...if I connect the gaming PC directly, the problem goes away. I have a 3com 10mbit pcmcia card on the outside interface and a Linksys 10/100 pcmcia card on the inside interface. My suspicion is the Linksys card, purely because I have had latency problems when gaming with PCI Linksys cards in the past. Is there any way, short of replacing the card, that I can determine if this is the case? And, if anyone has any other suggestions as to what might cause this problem I would be greatly appreciative Thanks in Advance, -Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message